The Seashore Hypothesis, or Waterside Ape Theory, of human
evolution, and African pre-history.

The Author's Travels in full-length Books and Collected
Stories.

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THE SEASHORE HYPOTHESIS, NOW
KNOWN AS THE WATERSIDE APE THEORY, AS EXPOUNDED BY SIR DAVID
ATTENBOROUGH IN SEPTEMBER 2016 ON BBC RADIO 4;
andAFRICAN
PRE-HISTORYThe author has studied the
evolution of mankind in Africa for forty five years and more.
Traveling about the continent he was always aware of the
relevance of the origin of mankind and the large mammals that
have evolved in Africa with its unique geography, spanning the
equator and bordering the Indian Ocean.

SEASHORE MAN AND AFRICAN
EVE,This is an extraordinarily important work which was published
in the public domain on the internet in 1999. In print for the
first time in 2007, the principal role of the eastern African
Indian Ocean littoral and seafood nutrition is central to the
hypothesis. Periodic sojourning by hominins at the seashore was
the driving force of human evolution, modified by selection (and
resulting extinctions) in the lacustrine and riverine
environments of the Great Rift Valley and adjacent savannah. Also
featured is the particular importance of seashores as endless
highways for hominin migrations as ice-ages waxed and waned, thus
making possible the spread of our ancestors around Eurasia,
Australasia and eventually into the Americas.

This Third Revised Edition
published in 2017, has been brought up-to-date. Sir David
Attenborough's recognition of a seashore dimension in 2016 may
assist with wider understanding leading to scientific examination
of a broader, encompassing scenario for human evolution.

The Aquatic Ape Theory (AAT), as the Waterside or Seashore
Hypothesis is widely known, has been largely ignored by
conventional science and vilified by a number of commentators.
Both the savannah and seashore hypotheses have to include
reasoned speculation. Over the years they have been presented
with varying degrees of rigour; the difference being the steadily
increasing fossil support of the savannah version whereas fossils
on the hugely changing seashores over 5-7 million years may never
be found. This book proposes that abundant seashore nutrition and
the niche lifestyle drove and progressed evolution which was
honed and selected in the varied habitats of the Great Rift
Valley and its extensions. Why are the savannah and seashore or
waterside hypotheses considered to be mutually-excluding, and
antagonistic? During the enormous period of five million years
and more the dramatic and unique evolution of humanity needed the
continuing intricate combination and interaction of both
scenarios for success. It is one story, not two
alternatives.

A BEAUTIFUL IVORY BANGLE,In this book the author has traced the impact and effects of
the Indian Ocean trading system on sub-Saharan peoples.
During the last 5,000 years there have been relentless pressures
on the native peoples of Africa from northern hemisphere
civilisations. The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution and
metallurgy forced the evolution of sedentary society,
urbanisation and political complexity. The core-peoples of
Africa, the source of all people on Earth, were drawn into this
turmoil primarily by trade which diffuses knowledge and practice.
The Indian Ocean provided much impetuous.

BOOKS OF TRAVEL AND
COMMENTARYSince the 1950s, the author has
enjoyed wilderness travel in Africa and he wrote books and
stories about the more important of these several expeditions.
Always, there was a serious goal in addition to the enjoyment of
adventure travelling. Montgomery was seeking a fuller
understanding of history by seeing where it
happened.

THE REFLECTED
FACE OF AFRICA, published in the United Kingdom
and South Africa in 1988, is the story of a journey in an
overlanding truck from Johannesburg to England in 1985/86. The
route in fourteen countries proceeded through Central and eastern
Africa, the Congo and along the Sahel before traversing the
Sahara. This revised and expanded Second Edition is now
available.

A book of colour illustrations complimenting this text book is
also available on the author's page at
www.Lulu.com.

TWO SHORES
OF THE OCEAN, published in 1992, is the second
of a planned series, culminating in the 'Aquatic Ape' books. This
book traces the author’s travels in India and eastern
Africa, looking closely at some little-known history of this
region, seminal to humanity, and opening the author’s
debate on the Seashore Hypothesis, or 'Aquatic Ape Theory' as it
is popularly known. Out of print for many years, in order to
maintain the continuity of the author's work this book is
available here in a second edition.

A book of colour illustrations complimenting this text book is
also available on the author's page on
www.Lulu.com.

CREST OF A
WAVE This book, first drafted in 1966 and
re-written in 1993 is published for the first time here. It is
the story of the author’s 1965 journey in his own Landrover
with a companion from London to Durban, South Africa, via North,
East and Central Africa. This safari took place during the birth
of the general African post-colonial period. This book now has
historical importance besides being a fascinating story of young
people adventuring in a continent whose character has changed
irrevocably. Now at last available for purchase in print.

A book of colour illustrations complimenting this text book is
also available on the author's page on
www.Lulu.com.

MUD, SANDS AND SEAS This is
an anthology of short stories and essays which fill in the cracks
between the author's principal journeys described in his other
books, available from this site. Diaries were kept during most of
the author's safaris. Many of these were made into short stories.
These traveller's tales span the years from 1949 to 2007 during
which great changes occurred. These stories reflect those changes
and provide snapshots of times gone forever.

GOLDEN
RHINO This is a book of traveller's tales
written as a precursor to the scholarly books on the Seashore
Hypothesis and African pre-history. It tells stories of
travelling in Africa, much of it for fun but there was a serious
purpose. The author was honing his knowledge with a definite
objective - to understand and enlarge his intuitive
feeling for the origins of mankind and the mysteries of African
pre-history. The problem besetting historians of Africa is that
the native peoples south of the Sahara had a complex yet
illiterate culture. Only recently has archaeology and reasoning
brought it closer to reality.

CLOSING THE
CIRCLE This handsome hardback book 'closes the
circle' of the author's forty year odyssey examining the
exploration of the world by Portuguese pioneers of globalization.
This particular Portuguese phenomenon during the 15th - 19th
centuries is examined with new insights, especially the
Kondratieff wave hypothesis of global economic cycles expanded by
Prof Tessaleno Devesas. The author has visited 32 places of
special importance to the Portuguese pioneering explorers in
Africa, South America, Asia and the home base, beginning at the
"Terra da Boa Gente" in Mozambique in 1969. There are
descriptions and his traveller's tales for every one. He explains
how he became enthralled by this subject through his friendship
with Tito Larcher.

HULETT - A
Personal History of Natal Pioneers This book is
based on one produced for the 150th anniversary of the landing of
Sir James Liege Hulett in Natal. It has been thoroughly revised
from research in the last few years to include major corrections
to previously published biography. It is a short history but
includes the best available account of family origins in England.
There has not been an attempt to describe all branches of the
Hulett family in Natal, because there are too many. But the
founder's activities are outlined and the author's own branch is
explored with its links to other families. It is an important
addition to local colonial history and, especially, Hulett family
genealogy.

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Denis
Montgomery journeyed throughout Africa on business and
vacation and to research historical places for fifty years, and
he recorded his fascination with the continent of his birth, its
history and geography. These journeys allowed the accumulation of
varied insights into the culture, lifestyles and evolution of
mankind. Frequent sojourn in African wilderness enabled a greater
understanding of geography in its grandest meaning.

Of Irish descent from both parents, he was born in South Africa
in 1934 into a pioneering colonial family and has lived and
worked in several parts of Africa, in England and Brazil. He
retired to rural Suffolk, England, in 1998, but continues his
travels.